3. BONDING CHARACTERISTICS OF NITROGEN
ATOMS IN ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
C N O
4 valence electrons 5 valence electrons 6 valence electrons
4 covalent bonds 3 covalent bonds 2 covalent bonds
no nonbonding 1 nonbonding 2 nonbonding
electron pairs electron pair electron pairs
12. •Rule 1: Select as the
parent carbon chain the
longest chain to which the
nitrogen atom is attached.
13. •Rule 2: Name the parent
chain by changing the –e
ending of the
corresponding alkane
name to -amine.
14. •Rule 3: Number the
parent chain from
the end nearest the
nitrogen atom.
15. •Rule 4: The position of
attachment of the nitrogen
atom is indicated by a
number in front of the
parent chain name.
16. •Rule 5: The identity and
location of any
substituents are appended
to the front of the parent
chain name.
17. •In diamines, the final –e of the
carbon chain name is retained for
ease of pronunciation.
•Thus the base name for a four
carbon chain bearing two amino
groups is butanediamine.
18. •Secondary and tertiary amines are
named as N-substituted primary
amines.
•The largest group bonded to the
nitrogen is used as the parent
amine name.
19. The names of the other groups
attached to the nitrogen are
appended to the front of the base
name, and N- or N,N- prefixes are
used to indicate that these groups are
attached to the nitrogen atom rather
than to the base carbon chain.
20. •The simplest aromatic amine,
a benzene ring bearing an
amino group, is called aniline.
•Other simple aromatic amines
are named as derivative of
aniline.
21. •In secondary and tertiary
aromatic amines, the
additional group/s attached
to the nitrogen atom are
located using a capital N-.
24. For secondary and tertiary
amines, different partitioning
of carbon atoms among the
carbon chains present
produces constitutional
isomers.
25. There are three C4 secondary;
carbon atom partitioning can be
two ethyl groups, a.propyl
group, and a methyl group, or
an isopropyl group and a methyl
group.
27. •The methylamines (mono-, di-
, and tri-) and ethylamine are
-gases at room temperature and
-have ammonia-like odors.
28. •Most other amines are liquids,
and many have odors
resembling that of raw fish.
• A few amines, particularly
diamines, have strong,
disagreeable odors.
29. • The foul odor arising from dead fish
and decaying flesh is due to amines
released by the bacterial
decomposition of protein.
• Two of these “odoriferous”
compounds are the diamines
putrescine and cadaverine.
38. •Amines, like ammonia, have a
pair of unshared electrons on
the nitrogen atom present.
•These unshared electrons can
accept a hydrogen ion of water.
41. •1. Substituted ammonium ions are
charged species rather than neutral
molecules.
•2. The nitrogen atom in an
ammonium ion or a substituted
ammonium ion participates in four
bonds.
42. •In a neutral compound, nitrogen
atoms form only three bonds.
•Four bonds about a nitrogen atom are
possible, however, when the species
is a positive ion because the fourth
bond is a coordinate covalent bond.
49. •An amine salt is an ionic
compound in which the positive
ion is a mono-, di-, or
trisubstituted ammonium ion
(RNH3 +, R3NH+) and the
negative ion comes from an acid.
50. •Amine salts can be obtained
in crystalline form (odorless,
white crystals) by
evaporating the water from
the acidic solutions in which
amine salts are prepared.
51. •An older naming system for
amine salts, still used in the
pharmaceutical industry, treats
amine salts as amine-acid
complexes rather than as ionic
compounds.
52. •In this system, the same
made from
dimethylamine and
hydrochloric acid is
named and represented as
53. •The cocaine molecule is
both an amine and an
ester; one amine and two
ester functional groups are
present.
54. •Cocaine hydrochloride,
-the amine salt, is a white
powder that is sorted and
injected intravenously. Free-
based cocaine is heated and its
vapors are inhaled.
55. •Cocaine users and dealers call
the water-insoluble form of the
drug
• “crack”
• “snow” and
•“coke”
56. •Many medication labels refer
to hydrochlorides or hydrogen
sulfates (from sulphuric acid),
indicating that the
medications are in a water-
soluble ionic (salt) form.
65. •A heterocyclic amine is
an organic compound in
which nitrogen atoms of
amine group aromatic or
nonaromatic ring system.
66. •Heterocyclic amines are the
most common type organic
compound gives structures
for a number of “key”
unsubstituted heterocyclic
amines.
67. •These compounds are the “parent”
compounds for numerous derivatives
that are important in medicinal,
agricultural, food, and industrial
chemistry, as well as in the
functioning of the human body.
68. •Heterocyclic amines are the
first heterocyclic compound
that we have encountered that
have nitrogen heteroatoms.
69. •In previous chapters, we have
discussed heterocyclic compounds
with oxygen as the heteroatom:
cyclic ethers; cyclic ketones; the
cyclic forms of hemiacetals and
acetals and cyclic esters.